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[Gilligan's Forest Pre-Alpha]

The Portal is for finished works. It is not for previews. It is not for betas. It is not for alphas. It is not for whatever a pre-alpha is supposed to be, you can't get earlier than the first thing. Come back when it's finished.

SaltySchmuck responds:

Gotcha, I'll come back when I have a more substantial game. Is there anywhere on the site where I can do this?

[Simplicity Demo v3]

From the content submission guidelines:

Unfinished works are best posted on Dumping Grounds. We have a variety of forums where you may share your link and solicit feedback!

This is a second incomplete work, and you intend to submit at least one more before a completed version, if that ever comes to fruition. Stop this.

garylu1999 responds:

I did not see that. Sorry. Thanks for telling me, though.

[Duck Season CJ3]

It's OK, it seems to work but it gets very repetitive quickly. Could use some sort of scoring system, e.g. time survived, most kills etc to add some replay value

Cmf996 responds:

Thanks for the feedback, I agree the game gets repetitive very fast. I was actually considering adding a sort of combo system, but couldnt due to time and not really knowing how to do it.

[Crisis Command]

It's OK, but limited, there's too little control and after a while the peeps don't randomly go far enough to get any more trees, and you've got enough stuff killing monsters that you can't tell them to get more trees. Bit of tweaking and this could be a lot better.

Alon-Tzarafi responds:

I intentionally let the game field deterioration to make a point and to make the game end eventually. It's supposed to be a short game. It's just an experimental game.
But I learn from the comments people really don't feel good about "leveling down" or about not being able to control everything. We gamers truly are control freaks :)
I guess if I release another game of this style I'll get the mechanics to meet some more conventional gaming needs.

[Triangle Sweeper]

This might be OK if right clicking to flag something worked. It doesn't though, so it's basically a waste of time.

Niborious7 responds:

It definitely works for me. Try using chrome if you are having issues on other browsers.

[A boy in a town]

If it's not finished, and still buggy, then don't upload it to the Portal. Upload it to Dumping Grounds, get feedback, fix it, THEN upload it here. The Portal is for completed projects.

PronoesPro responds:

Sorry, forgot about that, not gonna happen again.

[Candy Saga 3xb 2]

Generic match 3 shovelware. Nothing that hasn't been seen before and hence not worth playing.

Artur-Felipe responds:

It may look alike but it was done with a lot of love.

[SansNom-Alpha 3]

Do not upload continual test versions of a game. Post on Dumping Grounds and get feedback from the forums.

NYTUO responds:

ok thanks for you respond...

[Pixel West Early - Alpha Build ver.3]

Do not upload incomplete works to the Portal, especially if you admit it's not even at a beta/demo stage, and you shouldn't upload it then either. Use Dumping Grounds and the forums for this.

snowmanmedia responds:

If you think not even demos should be uploaded, then search 'demo' and see how many results you find.

[Electric Cock Rocket]

Pretty decent game, somewhat original concept and it handles well, sounds are good and the graphical style is nice, definitely worth a shot

DBuck-Eye responds:

Glad that you liked it!